WORLD (MT)

NOTE: When the Idaho Legislature is in session, programming on the Learn/Create and World channels may be pre-empted for live coverage from the House and Senate floors.

12:00 pm

America ReFramed"Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea"
Once known as the California Riviera, the Salton Sea is now called one of America's worst ecological disasters: a fetid, stagnant, salty lake, that coughs up dead fish and birds by the thousands in frequent die-offs that occur. However, amongst the ruins of this man-made mistake, a few remaining eccentrics (a roadside nudist, a religious folk artist, a Hungarian revolutionary, and real estate speculators) struggle to keep a remodeled version of the original Salton Sea dream alive. Accidentally created by an engineering error in 1905, reworked in the 50's as a world class vacation destination for the rich and famous, suddenly abandoned after a series of hurricanes, floods, and fish die-offs, and finally almost saved by Congressman Sonny Bono, the Salton Sea has a bittersweet past. D

1:30 pm

Native Waters: A Chitimacha Recollection
The Chitimacha, the 1,000-member tribe known as "the People of Many Waters," are heirs to an unbroken 8,000-year past. Living off the bounty of Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin, one of the richest inland estuaries on the continent, this indigenous nation persists and rejuvenates its culture despite gradually losing its ancestral territory to environmental and man-made forces. NATIVE WATERS: A CHITIMACHA RECOLLECTION journeys into sacred places of the Atchafalaya Basin with author Roger Stouff, the son of the last chief of the Chitimacha Indians and a keeper of his family's oral tradition. D

2:00 pm

Global Voices"The Mosquito Problem and Other Stories"
THE MOSQUITO PROBLEM AND OTHER STORIES is the tale of a of a village, turned concentration camp, turned city, turned nuclear power plant. In a world instantly transformed by ideologies, regimes and dreams of economic prosperity, characters' lives intersect in a sinister past and nuclear future. D

Independent Lens"Muscle Shoals/Waiting for a Train: The Toshio Hirano Story"
The small Alabama town of Muscle Shoals is the unlikely breeding ground for some of America's most creative and defiant music. There, FAME Studios founder Rick Hall brought black and white together in a cauldron of racial hostility to create music for the generations. This documentary examines the story behind one of the most important and influential recording studios in the music industry.G

7:00 pm

Frontline"Solitary Nation"
An estimated 80,000 Americans are in solitary confinement - sometimes for years, or even decades. Using extraordinary access to the segregation unit at the maximum-security Maine State Prison, FRONTLINE examines America's use of solitary confinement - a practice U.S. prisons and jails resort to more than most other countries.G

Independent Lens"Muscle Shoals/Waiting for a Train: The Toshio Hirano Story"
The small Alabama town of Muscle Shoals is the unlikely breeding ground for some of America's most creative and defiant music. There, FAME Studios founder Rick Hall brought black and white together in a cauldron of racial hostility to create music for the generations. This documentary examines the story behind one of the most important and influential recording studios in the music industry.G